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Here's a little meditation for you to try at a point at which you are up and about in the day and have the

time and remember to do so try and find something in your house that is particularly heavy,

but it is also something that you can hold in your hands,

or even perhaps one hand.

Something like, I don't know,

a bowl's ball would be ideal.

Perhaps if you owned a bowling ball that might work too,

something heavy, metallic, perhaps dense.

And like I say, you can either hold in two or ideally one hand.

And then, like I say, when you have the time to sit down with this object,

try as best you can to really feel and to be aware of the force that is acting on that object.

And now this is something that we regularly take for granted

because that force, that powerful force that

pulls us to the ground that keeps us rooted to the floor is so ever-present that it can be

taken completely for granted. You know, this is perhaps why it took philosophers, scientists, so long to label the force,

to analyze it acutely, because without any sort of outside frame of reference,

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